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Dr. Ewan Pritchard

ATEC Program Manager

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Ewan is the Associate Director for both the FREEDM Systems Center and the Advanced Transportation Energy Center (ATEC), at NC State University, an organization dedicated to helping smooth the transition to electric drive vehicles through research and development. As Associate Director Ewan works with the electric and hybrid vehicle industry to find barriers to the adoption of these vehicles and works with research staff within the entire university to overcome these barriers. Ewan has been involved with the transportation industry since 1997 with his work on electric vehicles at Advanced Energy Corporation. He left Advanced Energy for a short time to work with GKN Automotive on driveline solutions before returning to Advanced Energy Corporation to tackle plug-in hybrids. He began a program to transform the school bus industry to plug-in hybrids in 2002. And completed his masters thesis on the subject in 2003. Since then he has worked with numerous vehicle companies and organizations to develop electric and plug-in platforms to reduce environmental emissions and fuel consumption.